![]() ![]() But she has to make decisions nonetheless about what kind of future she'll have. Connie not a super-scientist she's a poor Latina woman committed to an insane asylum. ![]() ![]() Woman on the Edge of Time does not have any Skynet, and the one talking cat has only a really brief walk-on part to express its disapproval, in the way that cats will.īut in general, it's the same problem. This is exactly the problem facing Consuelo (Connie) Ramos. Will the future involve lots of purring and shedding and demands for food? Or will Skynet take over the world and institute a robot oligarchy to enslave all humans? What you do now, the choice you make here, is where the future starts. You have an hour free this afternoon in which you could either create an intelligent computer to play chess with you or figure out how to breed a super-fluffy talking cat. ![]() Imagine that you are a genius inventor-type person. If that seems tricky-or like something your friend who likes Burning Man and finger-painting and watching the fireplace Netflix video outside of the month of December would say- maaan, you're not wrong.īut it's also something that supersmart author, philosopher, and poet Marge Piercy would say. There is no future outside of the present. ![]()
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